{"id":1471,"date":"2016-01-01T11:17:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T11:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2016-01-01T11:17:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T11:17:11","slug":"first-post-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=1471","title":{"rendered":"First post of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Where do I start. What can I say. Often what I write down in here is still not fully me or fully open. My mind can be a very dark place. I struggle more than I ever tell most people. I keep people away or push them away. I&#8217;m lonely. I have too many fears in life now and they grow. Often I punish myself mentally for how I am. The hole gets deeper. I don&#8217;t care for all the new year new me bullshit. I change when I&#8217;m ready to change. If I am to talk about calendar years then last year, like most lately, I&#8217;m glad to see the back of for the most part. I am still struggling to deal with my mums death from a few years ago and now also my dads death from last year. The pain is too close and I don&#8217;t wear it well. I have been physically unwell the last weekend mentally unwell for a long while even though I thought I was level. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Looking back I have been really rapid cycling. I am still unable to read or mediate very much. My head is constantly in a state of turmoil and yesterday I was scared shitless when a friend went off radar for a few hours. The last contact I had with her was when she told me how lonely she was. I thought the worst. I thought she had taken her life. She has tried before a few times. I was scared she had. I&#8217;ve not met her physically yet but I have a lot of respect for her. She was there when I was at my lowest and she talked me through some very dark suicidal feelings. More than suicidal feeling if I&#8217;m honest. Somehow she managed to message me as I was about to get a rope out and hang myself. It&#8217;s not the first time I&#8217;ve come close to either hanging myself or stepping in front of a lorry. Several times I&#8217;ve stopped my van at a cross roads and waited for a lorry only to not get out and walk out because I would hate to do it to the driver. Luckily for me my friend had gone out and forgotten her phone. She was out for most of the day. Anyway I know I&#8217;m a serious fuck up in lots of ways but in others I am a pretty ok person. Life goes on regardless of who is alive or dead.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where do I start. What can I say. Often what I write down in here is still not fully me or fully open. My mind can be a very dark place. I struggle more than I ever tell most people. I keep people away or push them away. I&#8217;m lonely. I have too many fears &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=1471\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First post of 2016<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}